Court insiders report that as Yamasaki grossly mismanaged court budgets and funds in Santa Clara, while he assured Macaluso received "perks" and kickbacks through a travel budget that took Macaluso to Settle , San Diego and other places where he got far more than training from the conferences he reportedly he attended.

​On court clerk said :

​" We have to commute for hours to get to work everyday because we can't afford to live close to the Courthouse and Joe is running around getting pay raises and doing bogus press releases to help Yamasaki conceal misuse of tax payer money. They even took palm trees from the new courthouse construction site for their own homes and homes for judges and big shot lawyers".

​Court insiders claim that as their pay was frozen for years, Macaluso and a number of select court staff, transcriptionists, private corporations and law firms began to receive obscene pay raises and perks to conceal misappropriations and misuse of public funds that not only surrounded the building of the courthouse , but also funded law firms that were beginning to bet on divorce litigations and attorney fees in those divorces as part of a new Silicon Valley investment scheme that is not regulated by the SEC.

​Macalsuo reportedly boasted about his ability to influence legal outcomes in the county's divorce, custody and probate cases by intimidating members of the press, ignoring media and public records requests, and lobbying judges to take certain actions in divorce and probate cases or be assigned to civil cases that had favorable outcomes for large law firms and private industry.

​Santa Clara County's Bar Association insiders report that Macalsuo also acted as a front man for policies and practices whereby judges assured huge financial awards to lawyers in divorce cases, where the mainstream media never provides press. Macalsuo may have additionally assured favorable legal outcomes in Silicon Valley's criminal and civil cases as he assured grant payments and governmental contracts to large law firms whose clients were served by Macaluso's misconduct.

​Court staff who had pay frozen, and reduced, were outraged that during the same time Macaluso went from from $44/hr. to $63 /hr, in just four years, He was making well over $100,000 a year and doing a really poor, job. But it was more than that.

​As court clerks went on strike, Macaluso and Yamasaki were charged with migrating paper files to electronic documents and consolidating family court houses into the new monstrosity in San Jose. Without an experienced staff, havoc broke out , Court staffers report that Macalsuo was charged with distracting the press with warm fuzzy photo opportunities as court administrators knew that hundreds of thousands of court documents went missing, Whistleblowers report that staff and temporary staff were told to shred and dispose of court documents and as press and litigants looked for filed copies , unfiled judgements and orders, staffers were instructed to stall and delay , blaming missing paperwork on the move to the new courthouse.

​One insider reported that during the court staff strike, that an overwhelmed administration instructed staff and temporary workers to shred, or "lose court files " , One insider said judges were assisting the misconduct by failing to sign documents and altering court filed endorsements. DVROS , judgements and appeals , to the harm of thousands of cases and victims forced into Santa Clara County courts.

​Whistleblowers claim Macaluso's "fundraising " tasks, and influence over grants, may have been responsible for millions of dollars being improperly diverted for his personal use, and kickbacks to private industry , big law firms, where legal outcomes are being bought and paid by a core group of insiders.

​Law Foundation CEO Allison Brunner was " appointed to a jail reform commission tasked with investigating the Santa Clara County jail after three guards were charged in the beating death of an inmate with a mental health disability last year." It appears Brunner did little more than help the county courts bury details and settle out problematic cases, where again large law firms from the area made millions.

​In January 2017, Joe Macalsuo reportedly was caught using a personal phone for what could only be improper government activity. Joe mysteriously left the county court employment days later, and the courts offered no information about his departure, and the local media appeared uninterested in asking.

When legally shutting Missud up did not work, county Sheriffs arrested him and jailed him in the Milpitas detention facility, a Santa Clara County jail that has been highly scrutinized in recent years, and thorough a disturbing policy and practice that has been applied to other litigants and media outlets trying to investigate claims of court corruption. police misconduct and misuse of public funds.

​Missud appears to have gone crazy as the system he tried to expose worked to silence and kill him. Many litigants in Santa Clara County are beginning to see that Missud was not as crazy as court dockets and law enforcement would like to make him appear to be.

​Over the past ten years thousands of hard working and productive citizens have entered the Santa Clara Courts, only to leave with criminal records, vexatious litigant designations and all of their money , property and children taken by judges and lawyers who appear to be running Silicon Valley's new financial empire, not a functioning legal system.

​On anonymous staffer claimed, " We are tired of watching a few bad apples ruin our entire legal system and this has to stop".

​The staffer does not appear to be alone, other lawyers critical of California's State Bar and Santa Clara County judges and lawyers, like Michael Pine, and Dydzack were also disbarred after speaking up and the state's judicial guardians appear to be threatening media , You Tube and Facebook to take down any and all information critical of lawyer and judge misconduct connected to the state's legal system.

​Shortly before Joe Macalsuo mysteriously disappeared from the county's informal payroll, court insiders report he was working with the Santa Clara County Sheriffs and court judges to suppress the information related to a video captured by Q reporters at an event organized by former Chief Trial Counsel of the State Bar, James Towery. At the same time State Bar and Judicial Council administrators began to pressure a small online video news station to take down the interview with Dydzak, who outlined the State Bar Corruption that included connections to Thomas Girardi, Howard Miller, who had assured James Towery's position at the State Bar. Towery continues to use his current role as a Santa Clara County Judge to protect attorney misconduct and safe keep huge profits of law firms like Hoge Fenton, where Towery continues to receive income as he sits as a Santa Clara County Family Court Judge.